Today is the big day where a lot of popular websites like Reddit and Wikipedia are blacked out in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Without getting into a discussion of politics, let's talk about what's really interesting here: how will this blackout impact productivity in the workplace?
It's likely we'll see some news stories about how much money companies saved as a result of this SOPA blackout on the financial networks, but it will probably be a rough guess at best.
My best guess is that it will have the biggest impact on the tech sector companies. The type of websites that are down are generally geared towards younger people that are likely involved with IT, like Reddit and FARK. There will be less impact on other companies because the IT portions of their business are more event driven based off business need.
In the end the overall impact will be minor, and no manager will notice a difference despite what the talking heads end up making up for a dollar figure. Although I can't wait to see what that made up figure is!
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